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2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Chad Hartigan’s Morris from America
His sophomore film received a ton of fanfare after premiering at Sundance's NEXT section (and the first edition of the NEXT Weekend event) back...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jeff Nichols’ Midnight Special
Sundance missed out on the opportunity to present Shotgun Stories (2007) to the world (Berlin landed the film instead) but made up for it...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Robert Schwartzman’s MF
A 7th art bloodline that keeps sprouting new I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse. filmmakers, the Coppola legacy continues with a...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Bernal/Kashyap/Khan/Silva/Sono/Wasikowska’s Madly
Not your run-of-the-mill future film festival selection, filmmakers Gael García Bernal (Déficit), Anurag Kashyap (Gangs of Wasseypur), Sebastián Silva (Nasty Baby), Shion Sono (Suicide Club), Natasha Khan...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Alma Har’el’s LoveTrue
Alma Har'el broke out big in 2011 when Bombay Beach hit the Berlin Film Festival. Winner of the Best Documentary at the Tribeca Film...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: So Yong Kim’s Lovesong
Sundance, Berlin, Venice and Toronto film fest programmers would all agree --- there is a refined and fertile cinema chez So Yong Kim. In Between Days, Treeless...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Chadd Harbold’s Long Nights Short Mornings
Having flirted with the Sundance festivities with his 2009 selected short film Asshole, and in the sister NEXT WEEKEND event back in 2013 with...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Kelly Reichardt’s Livingston
The reigning queen of American independent cinema has a rich history with Sundance --- she premiered her debut film 1994's River of Grass (which...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Logan Sandler’s Live Cargo
A micro indie L'Avventura-esque meets Miss Bala like oddity presented at the U.S in Progress (2015 Paris Champs-Élysées Film Festival edition), Logan Sandler reteams with...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ira Sachs’ Little Men
Steve Karmen's 70s radio jingle certainly comes to mind when considering the body of work from the likes of Scorsese, Spike Lee, Woody Allen. We can...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: William H. Macy’s The Layover
Best known for his stumbling car salesman and poor choice of a husband in the Coen Bros's Fargo, in his almost four decade career William...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Robert Greene’s Kate Plays Christine
Is Sundance big enough for two Christines? It certainly would be a ballsy festival move and a trip as a cinephile to see, compare...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Wayne Roberts’ Katie Says Goodbye
Take two thesps from the previous Sundance film festival who both broke out big and then pair them up for your directorial debut. This...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: James Franco’s In Dubious Battle
The unpredictability with this filmmaker-actor is that he has got plenty of projects stoking the fire and we never know which item might push...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: James Schamus’ Indignation
A veteran player on the independent film scene dating all the way back to Todd Haynes' 1991 release of the seminal queer film Poison,...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Taika Waititi’s Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Taika Waititi's connection with the Sundance Film Festival has been a longstanding one. His constantly evolving funny bone swagger (aided and abetted alongside muse...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Kevin Smith & Co.’s Holidays
While TIFF is more inclusive to programming them, Sundance is not one to shy away from anthology horror films of the V/H/S type, so perhaps they'll...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jeremy Saulnier’s Green Room
It might be a case of deja vu all over again for director Jeremy Saulnier. It's hard enough breaking into Sundance, but the festival's...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Andrew Neel’s Goat
You can only have an actor attached for so long until they "grow" out of the role and you can only have a director...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Matthew Ross’ Frank and Lola
Will the real Matt Ross please stand up. Don't be all that surprised if Matt Ross (28 Hotel Rooms, Captain Fantastic) and Matthew Ross wind...
Goodnight Mommy | Blu-ray Review
Distributor TWC-Radius managed a difficult feat with an inspired marketing campaign for the release of foreign arthouse horror film Goodnight Mommy, the excellent directorial...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Rafael Palacio Illingworth’s The Force
Shot in June in Los Angeles, The Force features Olivia Thirlby and Ben Feldman in the pole position as newly married urbanites with a...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ian Olds’ The Fixer
It would be a futile exercise to try to pigeonhole this filmmaker into one category and just looking at the work samples that have...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Anna Rose Homer’s The Fits
Venice Film Festival Biennale College – Cinema sidebar is like a low-lying fruit tree that hasn't yet been picked, and from the past two...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Nicolas Pesce’s The Eyes of My Mother
Supported by the same folks who brought us Mona Fastvold's The Sleepwalker (Sundance 2014) and accompanied by the Borderline Films crew (who need no...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Madeleine Olnek’s Emily Dickinson Project
What the trades tell us and what is fact are not mutually exclusive. 11th hour film submissions at the Sundance Film Festival do occur --- the...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Mike Birbiglia’s Don’t Think Twice
Prior to his 2012 Sundance Institute supported/Sundance Film Festival debuted film based on both his one-man show and novel of the same name, we...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ross Bros.’ Contemporary Color
With their unique vérité aesthetic brand, one that shuffles the deck of conventional docu-filmaking rules and techniques (our Jordan M. Smith recently called it...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Antonio Campos’ Christine
If Cannes' Thierry Frémaux doesn't snag it away first, we might be chalking this unsettling piece of cinema as yet another Park City homecoming...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Brady Corbet’s The Childhood of a Leader
If included, it would count as one of the rare Venice preemed North American premiere debuts and uncommon 35mm treats at the fest. After...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Victoria Mahoney’s Chalk Rx
She was on solid grounds workshopping her debut film at multiple Sundance Institute labs and it yielded notable stops at the Berlin, SXSW, Deauville...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Matt Ross’ Captain Fantastic
Still relatively new in the distrib game, Bleecker Street has been keen on including film fest premieres for their individual film release strategies and...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Hager Ben-Asher’s The Burglar
It might be wishful thinking on our part to think that Hager Ben-Asher would somehow submit her sophomore film in January instead of holding...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jessica Dimmock & Christopher Lamarca’s Brick
More than any other period in film history, the popularity for the docu-form means we are in its healthiest and perhaps most inundated moment. With various quality...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Deb Shoval’s AWOL
With one of last year's Sundance intoxicatingly cute natured discoveries in Lola Kirke (from Noah Baumbach's Mistress America) toplining, the reasonable five-year morphing phase into a...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Carson Mell’s Another Evil
Those in the know (his following might have discovered him via his pair of novels in The Blue Bourbon Orchestra and Saguaro) appreciate his off...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Shaz Bennett’s Alaska is a Drag
Shaz Bennett has her own unique history with the Sundance Film Festival having worked for them as a programmer before it was even known...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Mark Elijah Rosenberg’s Ad Inexplorata
Naturally the post production process can be a lengthier one when latticeworking critical sci-fi elements with technical aspects. As is the nature with our set of...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Mike Ott/Nathan Silver’s Actor Martinez
As was the case for Joe Swanberg, it's not unheard of that trailblazing names synonymous with micro American indie film fail to crack the...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Tobias Lindholm’s A War
Despite his lengthy filmography as a scribe (mostly Thomas Vinterberg's righthand man Submarino, The Hunt and upcoming The Commune) and his previous outings as...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Andy Goddard’s A Kind of Murder
Climbing up the ranks with mostly writing and directing television gigs (this includes a handful of "Downton Abbey" episodes), Andy Goddard flew under the radar...
2016 Sundance Film Festival 75 Predictions List: An Introduction
Whether you are a filmmaker, or one of the Sundance programmers whose task it is to identify the films that make up a line-up,...
Secret in Their Eyes | Review
The Eyes Have It: Ray’s Unnecessary Remakes Pales Next to Source
Thanks to mainstream America’s huffy dismissal of subtitles when it comes to cinema, we...
#Horror | Review
As You “Like” It: Subkoff Finds the Sound and the Shrillness in Social Media
Actress Tara Subkoff makes her directorial debut with #Horror, a film...
Criminal Activities | Review
Subliminal Criminal: Haley’s Debut Feloniously Familiar
There’s a certain amount of smarmy appeal to justify Jackie Earle Haley’s attraction to taking on Criminal Activities, the...
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 | Review
To Kill a Mockingjay: Lawrence Brings YA Franchise to Inevitable Denouement
The last tony gasp of Suzanne Collins’ celebrated Hunger Games franchise is steered, at...
Carol | Review
Locked Out of Heaven: Haynes Delivers Chilly Lesbian Romance
Todd Haynes makes an exciting return with Carol, his first feature film since 2007’s I’m Not...
The Summer of Sangaile | Review
The Wind Beneath Her Wings: Kavaite’s Sapphic Sophomore Sighs
Sophomore is an adjective that serves as a pun to describe Alante Kavaite’s latest film, The...
Dangerous Men | Review
Man Trouble: Rad Enters Race for Worst Film Ever Made
A unique oddity even amongst contemporary counterparts competing for notoriety as one of the worst...
Video Interview: Filmmaker Josh Mond (James White)
After producing (as one-third of the Borderline Films crew) such seminal films as Antonio Campos' Afterschool and Sean Durkin's Martha Marcy May Marlene, its...
